Cosma / Communication / Media
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The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Introduction1
MediaSmarts (YouTube Channel)
MediaSmarts (Official Website)
Dictionary
media : a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook
medium : a means of effecting or conveying something: as a (1) : a substance regarded as the means of transmission of a force or effect (2) : a surrounding or enveloping substance plural usually media (1) : a channel or system of communication, information, or entertainment — compare mass medium (2) : a publication or broadcast that carries advertising (3) : a mode of artistic expression or communication — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook
A Dictionary of Media and Communication (Daniel Chandler & Rod Munday)
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Media (singular medium) are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data. It is often referred to as synonymous with mass media or news media, but may refer to a single medium used to communicate any data for any purpose. — Wikipedia
Media (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies. — Wikipedia
Media Studies (Voice of the Shuttle)
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Exploration
New media are forms of media that are native to computers, computational and rely on computers for redistribution. New media are often contrasted to “old media”, such as television, radio, and print media, although scholars in communication and media studies have criticized rigid distinctions based on oldness and novelty. — Wikipedia
New Media Museum
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Inspiration
TEDxMtHood (Official Website)
TEDxMtHood (YouTube Playlist)
Talks about Media (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
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Innovation
New media are forms of media that are computational and rely on computers and the Internet for redistribution. Some examples of new media are computer animations, computer games, human-computer interfaces, interactive computer installations, websites, and virtual worlds. — Wikipedia
Banamita Sarma (YouTube Channel)
The New Media Reader (Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort)
What’s New About New Media? (Lisa Gitelman and Goeffrey Pingree, New Media)
New Media (Wikipedia)
Technology
Popular Media Design Tools List (Eugenie C. Shek)
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Preservation
Media Preservation (Jason Curtis, Museum Of Obsolete Media)
Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)
Keeping and Organizing Your Files for the Long Term (MIT Libraries)
Media Preservation (Wikipedia)
History
IEEE Milestones Timeline (Engineering and Technology History Wiki)
Museum
National Science and Media Museum (UK)
New Media Museum (M.E. Hopper, Cosma’s Sister Project 🙂
Media (Jason Curtis, Museum of Obsolete Media)
Media by Date of Obsolescence (Jason Curtis, Museum of Obsolete Media)
Archive
Paley Center for Media
American Archive of Public Broadcasting (Library of Congress & WGBH Educational Foundation)
Media in Transition (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Library
Media History Digital Library (Eric Hoyt, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
DDC: 302.23 Media (Library Thing)
Subject: Media (Library Thing)
LCC: P 87 Media (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: P 87 Media (Library of Congress)
Subject: Media (Library of Congress)
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Participation
Education
Media Education (Kulturring, YouTube Channel)
Media Education (Kulturring, Official Website)
What is Media Education? (Media Literacy Week)
Digital & Media Literacy Fundamentals (Media Smarts)
MediaSmarts (Official Website)
MediaSmarts (YouTube Channel)
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Course
Media Literacy (Crash Course, YouTube Playlist)
Introduction to Media Studies (MIT OpenCourseware)
Introduction to Media Studies (Course Archive, MIT)
Media in Transition (Jeffrey S. Ravel, MIT OpenCourseware)
Fundamentals of Computational Media Design (MIT OpenCourseware)
Media Arts & Sciences (MIT OpenCourseware)
Community
Occupation
Media Programming Directors (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Media Technical Directors/Managers (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Media Arts & Sciences (US Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Broadcast, Sound, and Video Technicians (US Occupational Outlook Handbook)
Bibliography
Media Studies (Oxford Bibliographies)
News
Media Studies (JSTOR)
Media (Science Daily)
Recent News from Science Daily …
- Study sheds light on how songs, movies and...on October 25, 2022 at 3:25 pm
A new study played song and movie clips both recent and from their adolescence for subjects and asked if they had memories associated with them. Results showed people had more memories associated with older material and also appreciated media that had associated memories more. A look at the psychological processes associated with 'media-induced reminiscence' can tell us more about why people enjoy lighthearted entertainment like pop music or superhero movies, the authors argue.
- Light as a fairy tale: What makes a feel-good...on April 30, 2021 at 4:04 pm
'Feel-good films' are usually dismissed by film critics as being sentimental and without intellectual merit. But their popularity with audiences, who seek them out precisely because of their 'feel-good' qualities, tells a more favorable story. Now, for the first time, this popular movie genre has been examined scientifically.
- 'Emotional' reviews predict business success, new...on April 8, 2021 at 7:23 pm
A new study was able to predict the success of movies, commercials, books and restaurants by relying on the 'emotionality' of reviews instead of the star rating.
- AI identifies social bias trends in Bollywood,...on February 25, 2021 at 4:32 pm
An automated computer analysis method designed by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists makes it possible to track social biases across decades of Bollywood and Hollywood movies.
- AI tool may predict movies' future ratingson November 17, 2020 at 7:45 pm
Researchers, armed with artificial intelligence tools, can rate a movie's content in a matter of seconds, based on the movie script and before a single scene is shot.
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Communication Systems
Cosma provides access to Knowledge Resources organized around the elements of communication systems.
Communication, Media, Knowledge, Human and Noise
Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“
See also The Arts, Performing, Visual (Architecture), Culinary, Language (Poem), Music, Dance
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1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.